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Miersite

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Description
Locality: 
Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2 × 1.8 cm
Description

Yellow crystal aggregates of the iodine mineral miersite from the famous Bisbee deposit , associated to cuprite and malachite.

Miersite from Bisbee is very rarely found, a difference from other most typical localities for the mineral !

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Miersite

Formula: 
(Ag,Cu)I
Strunz: 
3.AA.05
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Colour: 
Yellow
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia

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